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Experienced and energetic commercial management and strategy expert, with both numerical and people skills. 20 years in the energy, health and banking industries. Passionate about sustainability and I enjoy making a positive impact on people and the planet. Key skills: personal, sustainability, strategy, communication, leadership, and management.Personal Skills:• Critical and creative thinker, able to deep dive into detail and see the big picture.• Positive attitude, initiative, honesty, integrity, willingness to learn, resilience, organised, good listener, pragmatic, and personable.Sustainability Skills:• Leading project to help with the gas transition while keeping energy affordable / secure.• Knowledgeable about climate change legislation including the Zero Carbon Bill.• Experience teaching sustainability and SDGs to primary school children.• Problem solving, e.g. time swap efficiencies and implementing new transport routes.Strategy Skills:• Mind mapping processes, strategies and frameworks in Visio, and using PowerPoint.• 8 years’ analysis experience, including creating balancing and financial models in Excel.• Writing stories, business / project plans, reports and providing advice, e.g. legal restructure. • Business development, including researching new customers and renewing incumbents.• Investments, e.g. data, assumption and strategy analysis. Divested small power station.Communication Skills:• Board, executive and government reporting, including climate change reporting.• Customer relationships up to and including C-suite at 20+ large business customers.• Stakeholder management and relationships, e.g. the Environmental Protection Agency.• Manage key communication processes, e.g. production rates with operations.Leadership Skills:• Industry representative; successful outcomes include an upstream gas outage protocol.• 80+ policy submissions to Gas Industry Company Limited and Ministry for the Environment.• Comfortable and confident in a VUCA world including public presence and speaking.Management skills:• Almost 15 years’ commercial management experience, strong at contract writing and interpretation.• Hired, coached, motivated, and lead staff – strong at teamwork and facilitating discussions.• Self-management – can scope ideas, plan, implement, assess, feedback and learn.

Listed skills include Negotiation, Project Management, Customer Service, People Management, and 37 others.

• Commercial Manager

  Greymouth Petroleum Limited

  Jul 2010 - Present - Auckland